Marathon Staff Grievance Meeting conducted by Salem Division, Southern Railway

With a view to redress grievances of the Staff  and to listen to various suggestions for the improvement of Railways, Salem Division, Southern Railway, is conducting Staff Interactive Meetings called PNM (Permanent Negotiating Machinery) periodically, with the recognized trade union.

The PNM for the year 2017 was conducted for 2 days un-intermittently with the representatives of the recognized Labour Union viz Southern Railway Masdoor Union (SRMU) headed by Sri M. Govindran, Divisional Secretary, SRMU, by the Salem Division administration under the chairmanship of Sri Hari Shankar Verma, DRM, Salem.  The meeting started at 11.00 hrs. on 28.12.2017 (Thursday) and was completed at 14,30 hrs. on 29.12.2017 (Friday), with small intervals in between. In this marathon meetings totally, 420 demands were placed. Major demands included upgradation of Salem Health Unit as Sub Divisional Hospital, Kendriya Vidyalaya at Salem, provision of park at Railway Colonies, construction of new railway quarters, duly demolishing the condemned ones, LED lights for all the houses in Railway Colonies, ensuring RO water supply in all offices and stations, Lady Staff Dress Changing Room wherever not available, etc.  DRM gave on the spot orders for about 412 cases that were within his jurisdictional  powers. For about 8 cases, he advised the Divisional Secretary, SRMU, to approach Southern Railway Head Quarters for action, since they were policy matters to be decided at a higher level. Staff representatives expressed their happiness on getting  solution to almost all of their demands.

The meeting was attended by the other office bearers and members of SRMU, Sri Chandrapal, ADRM, Sri Perumal Nandalal, Sr. Divisional Engineer, Dr. S. Uma Maheswari, Sr. Divisional Finance Manager, Sri A. Vijuvin, Sr. Divisional Commercial Manager, Sri M. Prabhakaran, Sr. Divisional Electrical Engineer, Sr. S. Naseer Ahamed, Sr. Divisional Electrical Engineer, Sri. S. Thirumurugan, Divisional Personnel Officer, and other Salem Division officials.